The disappointment of blue cheese in the 90's

I remember that party in the 90's as if it were yesterday, the music was loud, the dance floor was full and, of course, there was a buffet table that promised delicacies. However, among nachos, fried foods, tequeños and sauces of all kinds, there was a protagonist that did not receive the recognition it deserved: blue cheese. Yes, that noble delicacy that many discarded as if it were a piece of forgotten mold!

Imagine the scene. I, with the soul of a gourmet and the stomach of a teenager, would arrive excitedly at the table, there in the middle of the french fries and ham pasapalos, was the blue cheese like a sparkling diamond in a bag of stones. But, to my surprise, most of my friends would look at it with disdain. That smells funny! they would exclaim, as they served generous portions of a fresh white cheese with the unique ripeness of having spent more time on the supermarket shelf than in a ripening cellar.

Thus I sat through many a party and social gathering in the 1990s, lamenting that blue cheese in all its glory would be relegated to a shadowy corner of the table. To this day, I still remember how I tried to convince my friends with solid arguments while they preferred the security of the familiar. But who could blame them, at a time when the most exotic thing was salsa ranchera.

Today it is much more common for people to enjoy this delicious delicacy, but because of its high cost it is difficult to find it on buffet tables. Blue cheese is part of a Venezuela of the past where you could enjoy these delicacies.

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